Improvement in flour-bolts



J. J.- ziNN. Flour-Bolt.

N 0. 218,105. Patented July 29,1 19.

INVBNTOR:

1 I BY N. PETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON D 0 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH J. ZINN, OF UNION CITY, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE D. GARDNER, OF WARREN, OHIO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 218,105, dated July 29, 1879; application filed April '7, 1879.

To all whom it may concern: and semicircular ribs, the bolting clot-h E Be it known that I, JOSIAH J. ZINN, of forms acylinder when placed on the same,and Union City, in the county of Erie and State of thus the inside offers a smooth even surface Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved for the meal, so that it slides freely'over it as Flour-Bolt, of which the following is aspecifiit revolves, and thus bolts the meal more cation. evenly and cleanly; also, it makes the bolting The object of this invention is to construct to be done more easily and rapidly (and that, the reels so that a smoother surface will be too, without danger of choking) in rebolting given to the bolting-cloth, for the purpose of than in the present construction. permitting a sliding motion of the meal when At the tail ring D is a partially-spiral it is in operation, and thus enable the flour to inclined flange, F, leading from the inside of be bolted more evenly and cleanly than is now the bolt to the inner edge of the ring, one end, done. a, being in contact with the b )lting-cloth, In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is while the other, a, formed with a projecting a longitudinal section of the improvement on rounded edge, I), is tacked to the edge of the line as a. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line y y, ring, as more clearly shown in Fig. 3. The and Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 2 2. object of this is to take up the bran and offal Similar letters of reference indicate correfrom the bolting'cloth at the tail, and deliver spending parts. it over the same outside of the bolt.

Referring to the drawings, A is the shaft of I am aware that it is not new to have ribs the reel and bolt, having arms B radiating on the periphery of reels; but this would not from it at right angles. These arms, at the allow the chop to slide gently over the entire outerends, are joined to the horizontal bars 0, surface of the cloth, but would carry up a porwhioh are rabbeted at the ends in rings D D, tion and allow it to fall by its own gravity,

' so as to leave the outer periphery of the rings producing an uneven and specky tlour.

projecting some distance above the bars, as What I claim as new is more clearly shown in Fig. 3. The flour-bolt herein described, constructed E represents semicircular ribs, attached and with shaft A, annular heads D D, radial arms arranged on opposite sides, and joined to the B, bars 0, and alternately-arranged semicircubars 0 at their inner edges, leaving part prolar ribs, for supporting the cloth between the jecting above, as in the case of rings D D. heads and permitting the free passage of the The manner of connecting these ribs to the material, substantially as set forth. bars is to place them alternately on opposite JOSIAH JAY ZI N N. sides of the shaft A and at intervals apart, so Witnesses: as to leave a space between the ends. THOMAS DONNELLY,

By constructing the ribs of the reel of rings WM. '1. BOYD. 

